The Prayer Team should keep our Prayer Chain Email and Prayer Lists (for Sunday bulletins and Wednesday listening guides) up-to-date.

Ministry Area/Department: Service
Position: Prayer Team Leader and Member
Accountable To: Staff
Ministry Target: Whole Church
Position Is: Volunteer
Position May Be Filled By: Church member
Minimum Maturity Level: Stable, maturing Christian
Spiritual Gifts: Prayer, Mercy
Talents or Abilities Desired: Able to communicate well, organized, and collaborative
Best Personality Traits: Responsive
Passion For: Prayer Ministry

The people on this team must:

• Be able to work together so that prayer requests are sent out in a timely manner
• Be able to use a computer (through the Church’s Constant Contact App) to receive and send out the prayer requests
• Be proficient in writing and spelling
• Be able to shorten and rewrite the prayer requests as needed
• Be willing to find out more information, such as whole name, as needed.
• Have some knowledge of medical terms or the ability to look them up to be sure the information is worded/spelled correctly
• Be able to handle sensitive information in an appropriate manner. Not everything sent in needs to be repeated.
• Be able to name family/friend connections of the person being prayed for
• Respond to the person sending the prayer request if the person requests a response
• Understand how to filter prayer requests that may not need to go out for some reason. If a non-family member sends a request, you need to contact the family directly to get permission to send the request.
• Contact Pastor Melton if the request is an emergency request from a church member.
• If the request involves a church member, find time to contact (phone or in-person) to pray for them.
• Develop and designate prayer ministry throughout the church. This might include holding specific prayer meetings or vigils for ministry/missions efforts (e.g. having a prayer room with times set up during spring and fall revivals).